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mania
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noun
  1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism
manic-depressive
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adjective
  1. Exhibiting manic depression.
masochism
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noun (uncountable)
  1. the enjoyment of receiving pain
mechanism
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noun
  1. Within a machine or machinery; any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power
  2. Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements
  3. A group of objects or parts that interact together. (Political machine)
  4. A mental, physical or chemical process.
  1. (philosophy) A theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
megalomania
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noun
  1. A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence.
  2. An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.
megalomaniac
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noun
  1. One affected with or exhibiting megalomania
melancholia
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noun
  1. clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy
  2. melancholy
melancholic
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adjective
  1. filled with or affected by melancholy
melancholy
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noun (melancholies)
  1. (obsolete) Great sadness or depression; gloom.
  2. (dated) black bile
adjective
  1. Affected with great sadness or depression.
mental
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adjective
  1. of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process
  2. (anatomy) of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial
  3. (biology) of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure
  4. (context, colloquial, comparable) of or pertaining to a crazy person
He is the most mental freshman I've seen yet.
mysophilia
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noun
  1. A sexual dependency on something soiled or filthy, usually a kind of undergarment after use.
    • 1963: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (U.S.), The Psychoanalytic Review, p272
    • :While here filthiness is seemingly a consequence of the fear of being soiled, it is in our cases a consciously wished for situation which might be similar to within the psychosexual infantility.
    • 1988: Dennis M. Dailey, The Sexually Unusual: Guide to Understanding and Helping, p17
    • :Mysophilia, for example, can probably only be an erotic turn-on when it is possible for people to be clean, which is something that has been possible only in comparatively recent times.
    • 2003: Richard W Roukema, MD, What Every Patient, Family, Friend, and Caregiver Needs to Know About Psychiatry, p133
    • :These paraphilias include coprophilia (preoccupation with feces), urophilia (preoccupation with urine), (preoccupation with unclean surroundings)"
mythomania
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noun
  1. a compulsion to tell lies and exaggerate the truth
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